HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs MediaTek Helio X20

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

MediaTek Helio X20

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 10 cores 2100MHz MediaTek Helio X20 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.0998 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 12.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 20nm)

Released 2 years and 4 months late

MediaTek Helio X20 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +234%

331

MediaTek Helio X20

99

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

MediaTek Helio X20

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53

Architecture

2x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.85 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

10

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

20 nm

5.5

Transistor count

3

9 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

768 MHz

GPU frequency

780 MHz

12

Execution units

4

18

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0998 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

12.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

May 2015

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3670

Model number

MT6797

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

MediaTek Helio X20

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